Gorgoneion “Tell Perseus he’s a pussy,” Stheno yelled, disembowelling another one of his men. His partner just stood there in terror, looking through his mirrored shield. Stheno moved in closer to him, her snakes writhing on her head. She raised her sword at him, the tip dripping blood. “I said-” Read more
Messenger In a Bottle The islanders had a simple messaging system: they just put a messenger in a bottle and threw it in the water. The twist was that it was the message that mattered most, and the recipient could be anyone. Crazy, I know. But Polynesia worked just fine Read more
A Trillion-Dollar Rock 💎 Okay, Petra wasn’t the brightest of the bunch. Everybody knew that, except for her, as it usually was with idiots. The problem, and this is where clever people really slam their heads on the wall, is that if you throw a thousand idiots at a problem, one Read more
Nacho tried to act cool. He was cool, cool as fuck, but there was sweat dripping down his nose and he kept looking around him. What if the policia spotted him? Then again, that was the gig, right? He turned his head straight and tried to look like any other Read more
The Veil Elliot Tuckerberg grew up admiring the promises and imagining the possibilities of Magic Leap. He knew from his uncle that the headset would be something expensive, so he saved up for three years so he could afford it. He didn’t get a bike, got lunch from home, didn’t Read more
Closely Guarded Secret 🔑 The mayor sighed. “I believe we’ve gone through the official unfinished business.” He slapped the tenth pile of papers on his desk and slid it across to the other man. The mayor-to-be took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “Yes, we’ve been hours at it.” “Nobody Read more
Berenice’s Hair. 💇 Since she was little, Berenice had one goal in mind: To be become like one of the models she saw on the AR billboards. It was what she desired. She kept letting her hair long, despite her mother’s protests of wanting to keep them manageable. It was her Read more
Have you tried turning her off and on again? 🍆 “Have you tried turning her off and on again?” the tech support lady drolled on the holocall. “Yes!” Jack said, exasperated. “That’s what you tell me to do every single time. I have. She’s smoking from her back, it’s not a Read more
Mecha Race Chicken 🐔 Cluck, cluck, cluck. “The chicken race is serious business,” the man said, slapping the Mecha-Chicken’s behind. Cluck, cluck. “Now,” he continued, “hop on that chicken and ride like the wind, jockey!” Then he left, onwards to repeat the same pep-talk to his other riders. Kotopouli hesitantly put Read more
This weird and quirky story got picked up by Sick Lit Magazine, and is now in audio format in all its cringey glory. Bird’s-Eye View of the Back of Your Head. Read by Caitlin Patterson, she has really delivered the craziness and the black humour in this piece. I love Read more
